As always, I got the username wrong…
As that is technically true, a doctor who earns several times the minimum wage, has enough money saved up so he can quit his job at any moment and can even afford to open his own clinic if he so chooses to, isn’t the same as someone who earns the minimum wage and has a rent to pay or become homeless.
Sure, both technically work, but one has a completely different level of freedom than the other.
I would spend the money on a VPN instead because:
DLL links are always down, torrents can die too, but overall they are much more reliable, you can just have your torrent search engine to organise by seeders.
Much more content on torrents
Much higher quality, DLLs at least back when I used those had terrible quality.
Much easier to manage 100 downloads at the same time, sure Jdownloader exists, but…
RSS downloaded, you can get your favourite anime torrent or RSS and qbittorrent will download it for you every week.
Security, if you download software, popular torrent websites are much more trusted and moderated and you have less probably of getting malware.
If you subscribe to a DLL site you can use that single website, if you torrent you can download from many websites.
You can use the VPN for other stuff.
Coz you booted in BIOS mode, arch iso has a different boot menu for EFI and BIOS mode.
I strongly advise that your PC supports BIOS/Legacy mode, use that instead of stupid overcomplicated, buggy UEFI crap.
I guess UEFI is useful if you want to use secure boot or PCI pass through, otherwise there’s no reason to make your life painful by using UEFI, just install grub to the MBR and it just works, no need for complicated UEFI dirs, and add the UEFI vars to the device firmware that get automatically deleted every time you swap hard drives and then the system stops booting, and ofc installing to the removable path doesn’t work either…
My god, I hate UEFI with passion.
As much as I like Librewolf as concept and ideology, I can’t keep thinking that if there’s a Firefox 0day, Firefox gets patched first, Librewolf later, and I’m potentially exposed for longer. That’s why I prefer to stick with upstream.
There’s ffshare on f-droid, but I’ve never tried it, don’t know if it works.
Interesting, but this technology seems really scary, imagine being interrogated with a machine that translates thoughts into words, now try not to think of a sandwich.
Lol no, if you only have budget for one mix it should be the one that preserves the most information, if “90%” of the viewers don’t care about the art form they are watching then they don’t have the right to ruin it for the people who do care.
As for music there’s the opposite problem, there’s a problem in the music industry where most modern music is an incomprehensible mess thanks to the loudness wars, where modern music has zero dynamics, high distortion, lack of tangibility and overall boring.
If you listen to a 70s or early 80s recording you will notice that together with greater dynamics, you have better sound quality, definition and tangibility, than modern trash. Independently of what system you listen it on.
But a good mix will translate well no matter what system you have, it will sound good either on a 10000 dollars HiFi system or on some cheap pair of computer speakers.
Seriously tho, personally I don’t understand people who can tolerate watching anything with on a TVs built in speaker, I rather watch 480p with good sound than 4k on a TV speaker, but that’s me.
If I can’t afford a reasonable pair of speakers then a 20 bucks pair of wired headphones can have excellent sound quality. So there’s really no reason to defend a nerfed mix.
With this, I’m not saying that some modern shows don’t exaggerate and that their levels are past ridiculous.
May not be the most polite thing to do, but when outside I always wear headphones walk at fast pace and don’t hear anyone no matter who speaks to be.
I’ve noticed that as long as I have my headphones on, even if they aren’t playing, most ppl won’t speak to me anyway.
Well, it’s now cinema is supposed to be.
Ideally they could make two mixes, one for serious viewing and good systems and another for bringe watching or bad speakers. But since that would cost more money and isn’t done, a good dynamic mix is preferable because you can always throw a compressor and some limiting to a dynamic mix, but you can’t recover information after it’s lost. And as a film and series enjoyer I don’t want my experience to be nerfed.
As for ads, I have no idea? I haven’t watched an ad since I got internet many years ago. Idk how you’re getting your media, maybe get an adblocker or use torrents?
Because cinema is supposed to be immersive, it’s supposed to take the audience into the action, it’s supposed to make you feel like you’re there. Dynamics play an important part of this.
It’s not enough to acknowledge that there has been an explosion or a monster has screeched, it’s important that the viewer feels in danger, like the monster can actually harm the viewer. To get that adrenaline pumping.
Ofc when your levels are ridiculously exaggerated and you stretch over to the volume control all the time, then the immersion is broken because instead of watching the film you’re too busy riding the fader.
You don’t hate dynamic range, you hate bad mixes, two different things, without dynamics audio sounds like shit. An explosion is supposed to be louder than talking speech.
It’s just not supposed to try to mimic the absurdity of an actual explosion, to the point of discomfort.
Also, like said before in the parent comment, most consumer systems don’t even even have the dynamics to reproduce it without distortion (or damage the woofers).
Technically speaking it’s very easy to implement, it’s just a compressor, oldest thing in audio after maybe the EQ.
VLC has a compressor under effects, if you’re using Linux you can add effects to pulse or pipewire really easy too.
The issue with hard drives is that they tend to fail even on ideal conditions and even when powered down. Yes I’ve lost very important data to a powered down hard drive.
While it’s possible to recover information on a hard drive as long as the plates themselves aren’t damaged, that requires very expensive specialised tools and skills. Which probably wouldn’t be available in a scenario where the information on the drive would be of any value.
DVD-R (and probably consequentially Blu-Rays) aren’t any better in my experience, I’ve lost more data to DVD-R than to hard drives actually. Even when stored in low light conditions they tend to just stop reading.
However optical media has one big advantage here, is that the discs themselves are cheap, so instead of having all your digital eggs in the same basket, you spread them over several discs and while some information may be lost, others may survive.
Now, here’s an interesting thought, with digital data, the data either reads or doesn’t read, the so called digital cliff, may become partially corrupted and other parts still read, but after the corruption gets past a certain threshold all information is lost.
With analogue equipment even after severe signal degradation the contents while very deteriorated may still be perceptible, forwardermore an analogue signal is much easier to decode in the event that you need to restart civilisation building tech from scratch and don’t have access to the very very specific specifications of something like the audio codec or the filesystem.
You can probably hack a rudimentary cassette player together from very simple components, all you need is a tape head (a coil), a motor (a coil and a magnet), and an amplifier (a transistor or vaccum tube). (I’m probably oversimplifying here).
Overall I think the most important thing is having redundancy, or if redundancy isn’t possible at least don’t have all eggs in the same basket, instead of having everything in a single 8TB HDD, to try spread them into smaller 512GB ones, or DVDs or flash drives or all of the above. And don’t store them all in the same location, if an area gets flooded or someone builds a building on top, you’re only losing a small part of the information.
That reminds me of the baseball game episode, the worse and the single bad episode of the series, good thing I skipped through all of it. I rate it 0/10
I can’t imagine people watching it on TV back in the days without being able to skip watching the entire thing waiting for something good or plot relevant to happen just to waste an hour of what seems 5 hours of nothing.
Apart from that I loved DS9.
The Hubble still works?
That’s nice, I thought I read an article some years ago that it was going to be decommissioned.
Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS
Shhh! Don’t give them ideas…
Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows
You’re responsible for the technology you create.
So if I create a knife I’m responsible if someone uses it for murder?
Maybe I should implement a camera on the knife that records your kitchen 24/7 to make sure the knife wont be used for murder, is that OK with you?
Unionize workers in Microsoft.
If you “unionize” microsoft and keep windows non-free software, the employees get better wages, apart from that the users still get spied upon, and the means of production (windows source code) still under ownership of a small group of people, (and just like any other operating system or knife, can) still used for nefarious purposes.
Even if the workers at the microsoft commune decide to made windows non-spyware anymore, there is still no way to actually be sure since there’s no way to verify it.
Also, proprietary software isn’t only a prime example of private ownership of the means of production, but also a prime example of artificial scarcity.
As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.
Free software is a requirement for free people, if you don’t understand that, then you really have no understanding of how technology works, of how people work and how freedom works.
I recommend reading the following article: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
I have some bad news for you. Whatever software switch your phone has to “turn off” the mic, can still be bypassed by either the manufacturer or an attacker that gets root control of the device.
The only way to ensure a mic isn’t listening is by either unsoldering it or shorting the + and - contacts. I mean in the case of a phone you can probably do the toothpick thing and then test it and repeat until sound actually quiets, but note that phones can actually listen to you by via the accelerometer :/